Care assistant jobs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Skills for Care recorded 7,300 filled care worker posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2024/25, out of 7,800 care worker posts in total. Around 550 of those care worker posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.6% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

The care worker role is 56.2% of the 13,000 filled adult social care posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Turnover in the care worker role in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ran at 35.1%. New starters were 36.9% of care worker posts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 6th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 6,250 filled care worker posts, against 7,300 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole workforce, the same release records 750 filled senior care worker posts, 400 filled community support and outreach posts and 300 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole was £12.30 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole earn a median of £37,241 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at £25,700, £11,541 below it.